The average Republican candidate will be adamantly anti-abortion. He will also insist either that we can’t afford to expand the welfare state to address the needs of the millions of newly unwanted children in red states, or that doing so will simply encourage women to lounge in the hammock of dependency. Does this inconsistency present any opportunities for the Democrats?
Absolutely! The left needs to make it clear that the right is pro-misery, not pro-life. The GOP position, in a nutshell, is that a fertilized egg is a ward of the state, to be protected regardless of the impacts on women, but that a baby, once born, should instantly become a rugged individual and wean himself off taxpayer support. That has to sound ridiculous to any fair-minded voter, because it is.